Symtom
When connecting from a Solaris system to another Solaris system you see the invalid UTF-8 sequence error,
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ssh bhitch@krypton.com invalid UTF-8 sequence: Cannot convert UTF-8 strings to the local codeset invalid UTF-8 sequence: Cannot convert UTF-8 strings to the local codeset invalid UTF-8 sequence: Cannot convert UTF-8 strings to the local codeset invalid UTF-8 sequence: Cannot convert UTF-8 strings to the local codeset |
The server (sshd) will log the error message to /var/log/syslog as shown,
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Aug 17 16:58:42 hostname sshd[4629]: [ID 800047 auth.error] error: Can't convert to UTF-8: Cannot convert the local codeset strings to UTF-8 |
Fix
Install package SUNWuiu8
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Dickson, obviously our discussion showed a different fix so I'll wait for your notes. |
References
http://skullboxx.net/kb/node/505 - good details.
http://patches.ts.fujitsu.com/patch/sols/patch/141444-09_note-e.html